ASIN: B006XPBGE0
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 69
Published posthumously, this collection of short stories and original photography by Don Durham is wickedly provocative; sly and full of nuance. The author entertains and intrigues his audience through predominantly existential stories, preferring to let the readers 'interpret as they wish.” Durham's style is best classified as pastiche, a movement described by Umberto Eco as “deliberately comic and grotesque…free-wheeling reflections on some minor subjects that, often, [are] meant to parody the writings of others…” (Eco, Misreadings, 1). Full of cynical ennui, a hallmark of Durham's sense of humor, this amazing collection of short stories is guaranteed to startle the reader with abstract themes and wry observations of an off-kilter fantastical world; a bizarre ‘Carnival’ of the Absurd, where anything can happen and no subject is off-limits. His Faceted Beauty sparkles with intelligence ...
